The Hope pioneer., 1887-10-21
NEWS AND NOTES.

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Egypt's cotton crop viii be an aver
age one.
Prince de Talleyrand. Of France, il
doing the United States.
At Leipsic, John Neve, the anarchist
was sentenced to fifteen years imprison.
ment.
In tae Bulgarian parliamentary elec.
tions the result is favorable to the
Government.
Mr.. Powderly received nearly $4,000
letters, and answered 10000 of them
within the past year.
General Joseph johnson has con-
tributed $100 to the Lee Monument
fund of Richmond, Va.
Miss Mary L. Booth, of Harpers
Bazaar, has just returned home from q
five months vacation in Europe.
Two French newspapers, the Steele
and Lanterne, have been prohibited
from circulating in Alsace-Lorraine.
The total assessed value of railroad
property in Illinois is $66, ,571 1886, an
increase of $3,590,000 over last year.
Maria Edgeworth's Essay on Irish
Bulls, has been advertised among works
recommended for an agricultural
library.
Pope Leo has intrusted all the ar
engagements in connection with his jub-
lice celebration to a commission of four
Cardinals.
1t is recalled that Horace Greeley
carried all the Sunday papers to church,
and sat there and read until the service
was finished.
Mgr. Persico, the Papal Envoy to
Ireland in a sermon at Dublin said he
was gratified at the devotion of the
Irish to the Pope.
An autograph letter from John Brigh',
devoted to arbitration between nations,
was read at the meeting of Methodist
ministers in Chicago.
The Merchants & Miners Bank at
Iron Mountain, Mich, has closed. The
cashier is said to be in Canada with a
considerable sum of money.
A story comes from Baden-B Baden
that Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
has announced that he will abdicate on
account of impaired health.
Senator Voorhees, has been retained
by the defendants in the contest of Mil
lionaire De Pauw's will. There will
be some fine picking for the lawyers.
Reports from Toblach as to the CON
dition of the Crown Prince of Germany
are very disquieting, and much alarm
is felt in Berlin because of his condition.
The State of Michigan is preparing
to send to Washington statue Of Lew
is Cass, to take its place among the
large number now in position in Statu-
ary Hall at the Capitol.
The failure is announced of the
Niobrara Land and Cattle Company.
incorporated at East St. Louis, with
nominal assets of $250,00O, on which
70 to SO per cent will be realized.
James r. Keene has been trading in
oil with luck on his side, of late and
already prophecies are made that he
will soon initiate Henry Willard by re-
suming his old place in Wall street.
The hunters and race-horses belong
ing to Lord Allensbury. who was re-
Gently warned off Newmarket heath by
the Jockey club for instructing a Jockey
to pull a horse, will be sold Immediately.
Corn according to the Government
report, will yield 20 bushels per acre.
wheat lis, oats rs, barley 20, and rye
ll.5. There is a decline in the con
dition of cotton, buckwhcat, and pota-
toes.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is i'll Washington. A number of
decisions are soon to be delivered. The
annual report of the commission will
suggest to Congress some notifications
of the law.
A colony of negroes is going to
Shasta, CAL, to settle on Z 1000 acres Of
land above Shingletown. which has been
purchased for that purpose. The colo
nists will come under the leadership of a
minister named Petty.
According to the statistics the
average man throughout the civilized
world annually consumes AS pounds
Of grain, 20 pounds of meat, 7 pounds
Of butter, and 20 pounds of sugar, Of
the total value of :e5 IS.
William l.. Miller, of Charleston, s.
C., has two immense iron shells. said
to be the first two shots fired at Battery
Wagner at the beginning of the war.
The shells were never exploded; they
weigh 200 pounds each.
Col. A. Andrews, of San Francisco.
millionaire pensioner of the Mexican
war, pays over his small monthly sti-
pend to needy veteran who receive:
no pension. Some other rich pensioners
should follow his example.
Gen. Phil. Sheridan speaks of the 50.
called army of the United States as
very small one; but the real army, he
says, consists of 60,O0O.OOO of people,
md if the people are satisfied with il
nobody has a right to complain.
When lightning struck Baxter
Vaughan, of Strother, Mo-, it cut a hole
like a bullet hole in his hat, ran around j
Lhe rim, then down his back clear to his
heels, taking off in its entire course a mar
row strip OF skin, and yet Mr.. Vaughan
lives to tell his queer experience.
During the recent dry weather in i
Mount Pleasant, Wis, the hub of
heavy wagon struck gate post, and
5he friction was so great that it set fire
% the post. The gate was burned up
ind also the grass forseveral yards in